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作者：Rao, H; Sivakumar, K
作者单位：Emory University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Investor relations departments are diffusing rapidly among U.S. firms, and these new boundary-spanning units are likely to affect corporate governance and management. This article suggests that anti-management resolutions, monitoring by independent financial analysts, and mimetic influences are hastening the diffusion of this structural innovation.
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作者：Culnan, MJ; Armstrong, PK
作者单位：Georgetown University
摘要：This research addresses the tensions that arise between the collection and use of personal information that people provide in the course of most consumer transactions, and privacy. In today's electronic world, the competitive strategies of successful firms increasingly depend on vast amounts of customer data. Ironically, the same information practices that provide value to organizations also raise privacy concerns for individuals. This study hypothesized that organizations can address these pr...
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作者：Budros, A
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：What are we to make of the corporate penchant for downsizing during periods of rising profits? Are the firms doing this adapting to a global economy, cashing out social capital, or just sporting a faddish managerial innovation? This paper suggests why U.S. firms might downsize, illustrated by examples from the 1980s and 1990s.
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作者：Adler, PS; Goldoftas, B; Levine, DI
作者单位：University of Southern California; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This is a careful and insightful case study of how the Toyota Production System manages the paradox of efficiency and flexibility, which arises periodically in connection with model changeovers. The authors detail the functioning of four organizational mechanisms-metaroutines, partitioning, switching, and ambidexterity. However, of particular interest is the contextual reinforcing role of training and trust in administrative structures, procedures, and rules.
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作者：Larsson, R; Finkelstein, S
作者单位：Lund University; Dartmouth College
摘要：This paper is exciting because it synthesizes several theoretical perspectives into an integrative model and addresses a very significant topic-mergers and acquisitions-with a sharp eye towards clear managerial relevance and with innovative methods. I expect it to become a defining paper in M&A research.
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作者：Yates, J; Orlikowski, WJ; Okamura, K
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Panasonic
摘要：In a study of how an R&D group in a Japanese firm adopted and used a new electronic medium, we identified two contrasting patterns of use: the use of community-wide communication types, or genres, deliberately shaped by the action of a small, sanctioned group of mediators; and the use of local genres tacitly shaped by members within their own research teams. We suggest that these patterns reflect the more general processes of explicit and implicit structuring, resulting in both the reinforceme...
